i thought the first trailer was well done, with tone and content, the dwarven singing gave me chills... Then we got rumors about the necromancer and the horrible idea of Zombies or undead orcs. They obviously didn't research Tolkien's meaning of the Necromancer which in that day and age was referring to Black Magic/Sorcery Not bringing things back from the dead. Then we got trailer number two which in many instances to me anyways seemed very cartoonish in comparison to trailer one. The wargs look awful, more like rodents who are not actually a part of the scene just painted on top of it instead of a part of it. Radagast just looks disgusting IMO was it really necessary to have him portrayed as a hobo covered in bird crap? then there are the implications of Sauron playing a larger role in the films than in the book.(spiders attacking Radagast's home and his comment about a great evil has awakened... I just HATE the idea since it is all made up from a very few sentences of what Tolkien wrote. Honestly I don't think Peter Jackson can write in a style becoming of Tolkien there is no feeling of history nor depth in his modernized dialogue so I feel when he stuck to the blueprint Tolkien gave him he did a rather good job where he stumbled was making it up as he went along with his own material. Plus we get happy peppy Smeagol in a scene that should IMO be tense, dark, and creepy with very little comedy, not a comical scene with brief elements of creepy. Gollum's talking to himself in ROTK was god awful to watch and felt forced instead of something natural.

Lets see why do I find too much comedy bad? well personally I never saw the Hobbit as comedic sure some funny spots here or there but nothing slapstick and OTT. And certainly not laughing every 10 minutes I think the Hobbit would have been perfect in the tone given to us in LOTR just a more straight forward version, like the book. The hobbit was a much more linear tale which really only needed minor tweaking if done in the style of LOTR IMO. There are plenty of serious moments in the book i always felt Riddles in the dark was more serious than comedic. PJ just doesn't know when to dial things back, if he's gonna make things comedic he will push it past the point of funny into overkill like he did with Gimli in LOTR. There was plenty of serious material with Gimli and what we got was a parody of Book Gimli on film. It just concerns me going comedic we will get more of that same scenario with multiple dwarves.